This is a site where I post reviews of CDs, DVDs, LPs, and concerts. I have been writing music reviews on and off since 1984. I ran a heavy metal fanzine from 1984-1988 called Metal Madness and have been a staff writer for Aural Innovations for many years. I have also contributed to Chrohinga Well (RIP), Bad Acid (RIP), Lowcut (RIP), Roadburn and a number of other zines as well. I recently moved to Portugal so please request the new address and do not send any music to Denmark anymore. Tak..

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Boveda del Sol- Terra Firma (Self Released Portugal 2016)

Boveda del Sol is a solo project of Portuguese musician,
Jordi Pajagut. I met Jordi at the reverence Festival. He said he was very
inspired by the stuff I did with my own band, Oresund Space Collective.
Obrigado.. This is not at all like ØSC though, just to let you know. The title
track starts things off with a doomy riff and some organ. It slowly gathers a
groove though and then the vocal. Oh shit… This really caught me by surprise! I
did not expect a death metal like vocal. Some how it works but I am not a fan
of this vocal style at all as I can’t understand anything that is said so it is
more like an instrument in a way.
Effective?? Maybe… The vibe changes quite a bit around 4:30 and gets
more spacey with the guitar line but also some synth sounds. Suno starts off
with some cool spacey guitar with delay and some drums. At 2:30 the doom and
death vocal kicks in again. Intense. The spacey guitar line is still there but
now mixed further in the back and a layer of spacey synths is floating through
the sound as well. It fades out after 7mins. Echeyde starts pretty spaced out
and reminds me a lot of the beginning of the ØSC Ode to a black hole record. Nivaria
is a 4min instrumental track. I really like this one with the great bass lines
more in the front and then the heavy part comes later. Erg starts off with some
really spacey sounds and a simple guitar and stays pretty droney and spaced out
the entire time. Sigil ends the album
and is slow to build up with some more elaborate synthesizer stuff over a basic
guitar line and it just slowly evolves over the 4mins and then there is silence
for a min and then some gongs-bells before the main theme returns once again to
end the CD.. Cool stuff… I could see Jordi and myself making some music in the
future in Portugal…

About Me

I am a research scientist doing Diabetes research and I do music journalism on the side and have been writing about music for 28 years now. I also lead an all improvised psychedelic space rock band called the Øresund Space Collective. I also am an avid collector of music.